Thursday, June 14, 2018

Franco-Thai Mobility Programme 2019-2020 - Deadline 23 July

Funding Opportunity Purpose
This is a two year programme to develop research cooperation between France and Thailand, and is supported by Thailand's Office of Higher Education, the Thailand Research Fund, National Science and Technology Development Agency/NSTDA, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

The programme can fund projects in a number of domains including the social sciences, culture and tourism; math, engineering and chemistry, big data, nanotechnolgy, biotechnology, health, energy, environment, and agriculture.

Objective:
To develop joint projects in research and/or research training. To encourage exchanges between French and Thai higher education institutions and research bodies, and to develop sustainable collaborative research activities.

Area (Health Science)
  • Re-emerging and Infectious Diseases
  • Biotechnology, Natural Substances (Pharmacology, Traditional Drugs)
  • Neurosciences
  • Medical Science
  • Genomics
  • Proteomics
  • Metabolomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Big Data Management
Activity
Proposed project should focus on implementation of joint research activity, and junior researchers (master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students) training, taking into consideration the development of:
  • promising Thai and French partnership
  • scientific and technological research in the priority fields listed above,
  • research capacity building,
  • valorisation and knowledge transfer.
Projects implementation will be based on the following main operations: exchange of senior and junior researchers, the training periods in research laboratories, seminars and scientific meetings, workshops, etc. 

Eligibility
  • Each proposal should be jointly submitted by network formed one partner at least in France and one partner at least in Thailand.
  • The projects which have been already supported by the Franco-Thai PHC Programme will not be eligible.
  • Researchers are strongly encouraged to generate continuity of the project after having been supported by the Franco-Thai PHC Programme, constantly carrying on the project with a future perspective.
Award Budget
Project should be co-financed by partner institutions.
French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs will support expenses with the maximum of 12,000 Euros per year for each project. 

Award Project Period
Each project will take 2 years for implementation. 
  
Deadline
Application Due Date July 23, 2018.

Full details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/asean/franco-thai-mobility-programme-2019-2020-call-now-open-deadline-23-july

Call for Proposalhttp://inter.mua.go.th/2018/04/franco-thai-mobility-programme-call-for-proposals-2019-2020/#.WyHht1UzbAX

Proposal Guide: http://inter.mua.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Info-Call-for-proposals-2019-2020.pdf